Pick the perfect view options in iTunes

List view

The first of the three views available is List view. This is the best way to see detailed information about your music and other content, because each track or item displays on its own line with a number of columns of information about it. To enter List view, click the leftmost part of the triple View button (located at the top of the iTunes window, to the left of the Search field), or press Command-Option-3. By default, List view displays only a few columns for music: Name, Time, Artist, Album, Genre, Rating, and Play count. (Other columns display for movies, TV shows, audiobooks, or podcasts.)

You can display additional columns by choosing View -> View Options and checking the columns you want to see, or by Control-clicking on any column header and choosing a column from the contextual menu. Each of these columns contains tag information that was either included with music you purchased, downloaded from the Gracenote database when you ripped CDs, or that you added manually. You may want to display other columns, such as Year, BPM, or composer (for music), or other specific columns for other types of content. You can then drag the columns to reorder them as you prefer.

You can sort your music by the information in any of these columns by clicking in the column headers—for example, the Date Added column to see the items you’ve most recently added to your library—and if you click the Album column it toggles between Album, Album By Artist, and Album By Year.

In List view you can also display a browser (View -> Show Column Browser), and can choose to have it show at the top or the side of your list as well as choose which columns it displays. The browser lets you narrow down what iTunes displays. For example, if you want to see only your jazz tracks, click Jazz in the Genres section of the browser; you can then see those artists who are only in that genre, and see all their music by clicking one of their names.